Reading ∙ Writing ∙ Resistance

Dr Alex Lloyd, who leads the White Rose Project, is to receive a Teaching Excellence Award from Oxford University’s Humanities Division. The award is made ‘in recognition of the high quality of her teaching’ and ‘the important contribution she makes to the teaching of German’. It is the direct result of her work on the White…

From 18 May to 7 July 2019, the exhibition ‘White Rose: Writing and Resistance’ will run in the Proscholium at the Bodleian Library. It has been co-curated by Dr Alex Lloyd and the student translators. Admission is free.

On Saturday 4 May (2.30-3.15pm) Dr Alex Lloyd will give a short talk – a ‘Teddy Talk’ – on the White Rose pamphlets at St Edmund Hall’s ‘Access Hall Areas’ event. The college will be opening its doors to the wider Oxford community, showcasing the College’s ‘Hall spirit’ and the diverse day-to-day life of the members…

On Thursday 7 March, Dr Alex Lloyd and some of the student translators joined Dr Alexandra Franklin at the Bodleian Library’s Bibliographical Press. The students selected phrases from the White Rose leaflets – in German and in their new English translation – and experimented with printing them using some of the historical hand-presses. Slogans included:…

We are delighted to announce that there will be a display on the White Rose resistance leaflets at the Bodleian from May to July 2019. The display will be in the Proscholium and will be free and open to all. For more details, see the Bodleian’s website. The student translators will be involved in preparing…

Recently, the White Rose Project featured in the second issue of the Oxford Polyglot – the University of Oxford’s Modern Languages Faculty e-newsletter. This is a quarterly issue which includes articles on the wide range of research and teaching activities within the faculty and beyond. You can read the article here. The story of the…

A full exhibition catalogue will be published in print and online, alongside a new translation of the White Rose leaflets, in an edition of the Taylorian Treasures series in June 2019. In the meantime, here is a brief overview of the exhibition. There is a good deal more to be said about the White Rose…

On Friday 12 October around fifty students, academics, teachers, and members of the public gathered at the Taylor Institution Library for the launch of the White Rose Project. Dr Alex Lloyd (University of Oxford) began by introducing the project and then guests had the opportunity to view the exhibition ‘The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance’ in…

In July 2018 we issued a call for translators, inviting students at the University of Oxford to apply for a place on the White Rose Translation Project. Applicants were asked to submit a short statement outlining why they would like to be involved, and to translate an extract from the third White Rose leaflet: ‘Viele,…